"Well, there are two very simple solutions to it," I said. "The first one is known as the Blue Method. I just take your throat between my hands and squeeze it until your face turns the color of a ripe grape. When you're able to breathe again, everything comes back to you. It's a great memory aid. Something scientific about fresh oxygen in the brain. "The second one is even simpler. As soon as the banks open in the morning you just pick up the phone and ask 'em. It's easier on the neck too."

Threatening Madelon over the forgotten bank names.

— Scarborough (the narrator) in A Touch of Death (Charles Williams, 1953)


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